More work done, maybe I should be Chairperson?

Firstly, the Java project of Breakout. The correct link for yesterday is here, sorry for the broken link. I didn't bother going to the Java lecture, this semester they have been very poor and I would rather work on my project than attend a lecture that teaches me nothing. The project is coming along nicely, it now does several things. - When the ball hits a block, it bounces correctly, inverting only a single axis (based on the direction it hits the block in) rather than inverting both. - Pausing it really does pause it properly, it no longer resets the ball position, good luck cheating now! - The ball accelerates by 1 pixel a cycle every 10 blocks destroyed, it starts at 5 pixels a cycle - Download it here Midday there was an SSCC meeting. For some reason there seems to always be an item that is of interest to me and the rest are of no interest. Well, today's was the chairman item. Prof Cripps has been Chairperson for 10 years and has been trying to get a Student Chair for a while, he started by hinting at it and now he's put it on the agenda. There was a 2-1 ratio of Students to Staff today and of the vast horde of students, guess how many were eligible to be chair? Correct, just me. The rest were 3rd year and so would be leaving, I told them that if I didn't get a placement I'd accept it but my Mum has very helpfully found another company to apply to. Back when HP told me I was unsuccessful (I've re-emailed them to make sure they got my message asking why) I talked to a friend called Daan. Daan has had some interesting theological discussions with me and I told him that my faith was still strong and that despite the HP incident, God still has a perfect plan for me. Obviously, you can take the view that an 800 mile round trip to Newcastle and Back could be God's idea of a joke, maybe it is. The key thing is that I still believe He has that perfect plan. The thing is, I have to be able to accept that God does not want me to take a placement, it occurred to me while on the loo, "what would God do if He didn't want me to take a placement?". What's happened so far would be a good start in my opinion. So, unless something big happens, if this next chance fails then I will probably not take a placement. Tomorrow's Java project should have some speed optimisations, apparently a single core 1GHz computer isn't quite as good as a Dual Core 2.33GHz computer, odd that!